Moral and Political Works

After having well considered it, he says, when we maintain that a man lies, it is as if we said that he acts the brave man toward God, and the coward toward men; As in effect, lying faces God brazenly, and retreats from man. That is why Perfidy cannot be better expressed than it will be at the last sound of the trumpet, which will call the judgment of God upon the race of mortals, having been predicted, That when the Savior comes, he will find no faith on the earth.